Tea Parties and the "Racist" Canard

"Liberals, who cannot understand or will not understand the interests of white America, instead resort to flinging accusations of racism," reads The American Conservative's blurb introducing David Paul Kuhn's article — The Racist Hubbub. "Gratuitous charges of racism... capture an enduring mistake of modern liberalism," a "mistake [that] disserves liberals most."

Patrick J. Buchanan reminds us that "neither audio nor video of this alleged incident has been produced, though TV cameras and voice recorders were everywhere on the Hill," and suggests that "exploiting these real, imaginary or hoked-up slurs to... smear opponents as racists and bigots... is the politics of desperation" — The Real Anti-Americans.

Daniel McCarthy of @TAC introduces us to a liberal who "doesn’t completely buy into the Left’s stereotype of the Tea Parties as racist" — Naomi Wolf: Tea Parties Fight Fascism. "Even though I’m appalled when racism surfaces," says Miss Wolf, "and I personally don’t agree with certain policy solutions and a lot of what they believe in, as someone who is very concerned about reinvigorating democracy the Tea Parties are an answer to what I asked for."